Linguamática, Journal of Automatic Processing of Iberian Languages (ISSN 1647-0818, http://www.linguamatica.com/), is open for reception of articles for the 6th volume, 1st issue, which will be published in June 2014.

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Papers will be published in electronic form and freely available online under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Topics of interest:

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* Computational morphology, syntax and semantics

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* Machine translation and computer-assisted translation

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* Computational terminology and lexicography

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* Speech analysis and synthesis

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* Information extraction

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* Question answering systems

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* Corpus linguistics

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* Digital libraries

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* Evaluation of natural language processing systems

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* Public or cooperative linguistic tools and resources

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* Linguistic services on the Internet

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* Ontologies and knowledge representation

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* Statistical methods in natural language processing

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* Computer-assisted language learning

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NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

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Authors should send the originals in electronic format as a PDF file through Linguamática site (http://www.linguamatica.com/). Submissions should not exceed 20 pages and must include authors identification. Equally, reviewers will sign their comments.

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Submissions should be written in one of the main languages of the Iberian Peninsula (Portuguese, Galician, Spanish, Basque or Catalan), or in English. Authors able to write in one of the Iberian languages are encouraged to do so. Articles written in English will only be published in the case that none of the authors is competent in any of the Journal's preferred languages (Portuguese, Galician, Spanish, Basque and Catalan) and provided that the editors consider the article to be relevant to the Journal.

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Make sure the submitted file follows the formating rules of the Journal. Check the LaTeX, Microsoft Word or OpenOffice templates at Linguamática site (http://www.linguamatica.com/).

Information in natural language is almost always located in time and/or space. The coherence of a document also results from a coherent temporal perspective, and in certain cases from the coherence of the spatial frame.

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Beyond specific applications where this information is obviously central (navigation systems, scene visualization, geo-localization, chronology extraction, etc), time and space also play an important part in other related tasks, such as information extraction where they constrain the validity of most facts, or in summarization and question-answering where temporal coherence is important. From a more fundamental perspective, temporal and spatial modifications have a pervasive influence in semantic and pragmatic representations. It is natural that they motivate a growing number of projects, specific annotated corpora, which in turn lead to specification and normalization efforts, such as the ISO-TimeML and ISO-Space standards.

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All this have helped to move from essentially theoretical models in the 1990s, to arrive at a body of work with better empirically justified foundations. This can be shown with recent evaluation campaigns for some sub-tasks (Tempeval) within the Semeval campaigns.

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Expressions of time and space also have some specific aspects that set them apart from other semantic tasks in natural language processing. A notable aspect is the importance of the underlying semantics of temporal and spatial predicates, as is noted in several studies that take their inferential properties into account, especially when considered at the level of a document. Evaluation of the resulting representations is then not a trivial matter.

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The objective of this special issue is to present new developments in the processing of temporal and spatial information in language, from theoretical, practical and methodological point of views. Spatial processing has been of increasing interest lately, and raises specific issues, and we encourage work that focus on this aspect, in isolation or in relation with temporal information. Presentation of the importance of such information in applications is also encouraged.

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We encourage submission on any aspect related to the processing of temporal and spatial information in natural language, especially on the following issues and tasks:

TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues / Natural Language Processing) is a forty year old international journal published by ATALA (French Association for Natural Language Processing) with the support of CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). It has moved to an electronic mode of publication, with printing on demand. This affects in no way its reviewing and selection process.

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PRACTICAL ISSUES

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Authors intending to submit a paper are encouraged to contact the guest editors of the issue: Inderjeet Mani (inderjeet.mani at gmail.com) and Philippe Muller (philippe.muller at irit.fr)

CFP: Linguamática, 6.1 (2014)

Linguamática, Journal of Automatic Processing of Iberian Languages (ISSN 1647-0818, http://www.linguamatica.com/), is open for reception of articles for the 6th volume, 1st issue, which will be published in June 2014.

Papers will be published in electronic form and freely available online under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

Topics of interest:

Computational morphology, syntax and semantics

Machine translation and computer-assisted translation

Computational terminology and lexicography

Speech analysis and synthesis

Information extraction

Question answering systems

Corpus linguistics

Digital libraries

Evaluation of natural language processing systems

Public or cooperative linguistic tools and resources

Linguistic services on the Internet

Ontologies and knowledge representation

Statistical methods in natural language processing

Computer-assisted language learning

NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Authors should send the originals in electronic format as a PDF file through Linguamática site (http://www.linguamatica.com/). Submissions should not exceed 20 pages and must include authors identification. Equally, reviewers will sign their comments.

Submissions should be written in one of the main languages of the Iberian Peninsula (Portuguese, Galician, Spanish, Basque or Catalan), or in English. Authors able to write in one of the Iberian languages are encouraged to do so. Articles written in English will only be published in the case that none of the authors is competent in any of the Journal's preferred languages (Portuguese, Galician, Spanish, Basque and Catalan) and provided that the editors consider the article to be relevant to the Journal.

Make sure the submitted file follows the formating rules of the Journal. Check the LaTeX, Microsoft Word or OpenOffice templates at Linguamática site (http://www.linguamatica.com/).

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submitting papers: 15 april 2014

Notification of acceptance: 15 may 2014

Deadline for submitting the final version: 31 may 2014

Publication date: june 2014

EDITORS

Alberto Simões (Universidade do Minho)

José João Almeida (Universidade do Minho)

Xavier Gómez Guinovart (Universidade de Vigo)

CONTACT INFORMATION

For more information please e-mail: editores@linguamatica.com

CFP: TAL 53-2 Special Issue: Processing of temporal and spatial information in language

Information in natural language is almost always located in time and/or space. The coherence of a document also results from a coherent temporal perspective, and in certain cases from the coherence of the spatial frame.

Beyond specific applications where this information is obviously central (navigation systems, scene visualization, geo-localization, chronology extraction, etc), time and space also play an important part in other related tasks, such as information extraction where they constrain the validity of most facts, or in summarization and question-answering where temporal coherence is important. From a more fundamental perspective, temporal and spatial modifications have a pervasive influence in semantic and pragmatic representations. It is natural that they motivate a growing number of projects, specific annotated corpora, which in turn lead to specification and normalization efforts, such as the ISO-TimeML and ISO-Space standards.

All this have helped to move from essentially theoretical models in the 1990s, to arrive at a body of work with better empirically justified foundations. This can be shown with recent evaluation campaigns for some sub-tasks (Tempeval) within the Semeval campaigns.

Expressions of time and space also have some specific aspects that set them apart from other semantic tasks in natural language processing. A notable aspect is the importance of the underlying semantics of temporal and spatial predicates, as is noted in several studies that take their inferential properties into account, especially when considered at the level of a document. Evaluation of the resulting representations is then not a trivial matter.

The objective of this special issue is to present new developments in the processing of temporal and spatial information in language, from theoretical, practical and methodological point of views. Spatial processing has been of increasing interest lately, and raises specific issues, and we encourage work that focus on this aspect, in isolation or in relation with temporal information. Presentation of the importance of such information in applications is also encouraged.

We encourage submission on any aspect related to the processing of temporal and spatial information in natural language, especially on the following issues and tasks:

TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues / Natural Language Processing) is a forty year old international journal published by ATALA (French Association for Natural Language Processing) with the support of CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). It has moved to an electronic mode of publication, with printing on demand. This affects in no way its reviewing and selection process.

PRACTICAL ISSUES

Authors intending to submit a paper are encouraged to contact the guest editors of the issue: Inderjeet Mani (inderjeet.mani at gmail.com) and Philippe Muller (philippe.muller at irit.fr)